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“I'm the CEO. My job is to get out of the way. I work with smart people and trust they can accomplish their goals. So I make sure to focus on removing roadblocks for them and then resume getting out of their way.”

People Way Jobs Goal Focus Smart Accomplish Ceo Resumes Smart People Roadblock

Author:John Fairclough

“We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.”

Effort Focus Solutions Discovering

Book:A Simpler Way

Source: A Simpler Way

“Enjoy what you have, live in the moment, focus on things you can change and ignore the rest.”

Moments Enjoy Focus Live In The Moment

Author:Joe Sacco

“It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D.”

Remember Easy Growing Up Focus Growing Products Industry Computer Standards Heavy Hated Ems Ibm Great Sales Mainframe

Author:Bill Gates

“If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most important problems.”

Ifs Way Want Important Problem Focus Impact Best Way

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“We can sit and worry about what's going to happen to us two weeks from now. I'd rather focus on the amazing things happening right in front of us.”

Two Happens Worry Focus Week Fronts Happenings Things Happen Two Weeks Amazing Things

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“I've always thought that if my death was imminent, I would read. When I can't focus on a book, I tend to keep reading the same page. My guess is, I would've read, like the first page of Nicholas Nickleby over and over again.”

Ifs Firsts I Can Book Reading Focus Pages

Author:Paula Poundstone

“The real focus at first is to just become a good stand-up comedian, and then when you get to a certain level, then they allow you to do other things. You feel if you're overwhelmed by something or if you're not.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Real Certain Levels Focus Comedian Overwhelmed Stand Up Comedian

Author:Jon Stewart

“The country's 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything we hear nothing.”

“I think of people as members of an audience. But an audience acts independently of every individual. It's an organism on its own. I focus on that living hydra in the dark.”

People Thinking Individual Dark Audience Focus Members Organisms Hydra

Author:Emo Philips

“I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys, taking time in cross section, if we do not choose the essential imperceptible fraction of it.”

Ifs Study Focus Movement Expression Essentials Crosses Cameras Raised Take Time Sections Revealing Fractions

Author:Julio Cortazar

“The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.”

Bigs Energy Sex Focus Violence Drug Lifestyle Opening Without Love Tents Intimidation Recycling Opening Up Sex Without Love

Author:Jesse Jackson

“Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.”

Bigs Moving Focus Generations Activity Shadow Convinced Sunlight Threatened Tents

Author:Jesse Jackson

“We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.”

Way Government Able Jobs Opportunity Wealth Focus Fairs Democratic Behave Private Sector

Author:Jesse Jackson

“I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me.”

Thinking Looks Moments Focus Periods Fame Magazines Magazine Covers Good Moments

Author:Jonathan Taylor Thomas

“Sometimes the only solution is figuring out a bigger problem to focus on.”

Sometimes Problem Focus Solutions Bigger Bigger Problems

Author:Dane Cook

“... I'm sort of a nervous person with the camera, so I will just shoot arbitrarily until I can focus and compose something, and then I make a shot. So generally, in [the] proof sheets, there are only three or four really concentrated efforts to take a photograph. It's not like a professional kind of person who sets it up so every photograph looks really cool.”

Looks Kind Persons I Can Three Effort Focus Four Shots Cameras Photograph Proof Nervous Sheets Really Cool

Book:Dennis Hopper: Interviews

Source: Dennis Hopper: Interviews

“It's so easy to focus on what could go wrong, on what else you could do before you try the thing you really want to do. No. Just get out there and try.”

Want Trying Action Easy Focus

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Fundamental questions are being asked about the future of the Eurozone and therefore the shape of the EU itself. Opportunities to advance our national interest are clearly becoming apparent. We should focus on how to make the most of this, not pursue a parliamentary process for a multiple choice referendum.”

Should Choices Opportunity Process Interest Focus Becoming Shapes Fundamentals Pursue Multiple National Interests Parliamentary Referendums Eurozone Multiple Choice

Author:David Cameron

“The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.”

Choices Energy Focus Limits Elsewhere Simplify

Author:Cory Booker

“I enjoy both acting and screenwriting, in completely different ways. You have more creative freedom with writing because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.”

Way Writing Different Character Stories Happens Moving Actors Enjoy Acting Situation Creative Focus Different Ways Reacting Screenwriting Creative Freedom

Author:John Francis Daley

“I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you have more control. On television, the producers are the creative forces behind it. Directors come and go on television.”

Force Behinds Creative Focus Television Goes On Directors Skills Producers Features Comes And Goes

Author:Eric Balfour

“Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although it certainly makes you wonder a bit when an independent production like "In The Bedroom", you know, seems to focus constantly on Marlboros and almost it turns into a Marlboro ad, whether there was any money exchanged.”

Knows Seems Turns Bits Pay Company Wonder Focus Products Claims Independent Productions Ads Cigarette Bedroom

Author:Joe Eszterhas

“There are times when you get frustrated, but the one thing you always focus on is treating people well. You just cannot storm off and freak out.”

People Wells Focus One Thing Storm Freak Frustrated

Author:Taylor Swift

“There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.”

Thinking Important Focus Limitation Storyline

Author:Joseph Kosinski

“I will focus on smoking in movies and with the amount of time that I have left in the world, I will do the best I can to stop smoking in movies and also to help people stop smoking, just normal ordinary people who may need help.”

People World Needs May I Can Helping Left Focus Amount Normal Ordinary Smoking Ordinary People Do The Best Need Help Stop Smoking

Author:Joe Eszterhas

“Center Stage focused on the drive and what it's like to be a student, and this is what it's like to be an adult and what you need to give up in the pursuit of that passion and that focus.”

Needs Giving Passion Focus Stage Students Giving Up Adults Focused Pursuit Center Stage

Author:Amanda Schull

“And writing comedy and it really taught me how to kind of like craft jokes, it sounds like weird but really focus on crafting jokes and trying to make the writing really sharp. At the same time I did improv comedy in college, and that helped with understanding the performance aspect of comedy, you know, because it's different when you improv something vs. when you write it and they're both kind of part of my process now.”

Knows Writing Trying Kind Different Process Understanding Sound Comedy Focus Taught College Jokes Aspect Performances Crafts Writing Comedy Improv Comedy

Author:Nicholas Stoller

“Most of Emily's backstory is written out between New Moon and Eclipse. I'm reading them as we're shooting the films. I haven't read Breaking Dawn yet. It's just too crazy. There's too much going on that you need a map. I just try to focus on one movie at a time. When we were doing New Moon press, people were already asking about Eclipse. I didn't read it until I was ready to go, so that it was fresh and I wasn't jumbled with all this other stuff.”

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Author:Tinsel Korey

“I think it's overly simplistic to say that any one single strategy is going to really change the focus and change the trajectory of drug use.”

Thinking Use Focus Drug Strategy Trajectory Drug Use

Author:Michael Botticelli

“One of the drivers of heroin has been the misuse of pain medication. If we're gonna deal with heroin and heroin use in the United States, we really have to focus on reducing the magnitude of the prescription drug use issue.”

Ifs Has Beens States Use Pain United Deals United States Issues Focus Drug Drivers Reducing Prescriptions Magnitude Medication Heroin Misuse Prescription Drugs Drug Use

Author:Michael Botticelli

“Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.”

Made Beautiful Joy Given Parent Focus Changed Becoming Becoming A Parent

Author:Angelina Jolie

“You try to break it down to weeks at a time otherwise you sort of make yourself crazy spinning out going from one....you just can't get your head around one of them fully. So I'm more task oriented. I like to sort of like focus on one thing for a couple of weeks...and also they're all in different stages of development.”

Trying Different Break Focus One Thing Week Crazy Stage Development Couple Tasks Spinning Stages Of Development Focus On One Thing

Author:Justin Theroux

“I've been writing for myself since I was a teenager - I got into top-lining for some other artists/producers, but the focus was always on my own stuff.”

Writing Artist Stuff My Own Focus Producers Teenager

Author:LIZ

“I focus more on the music and my message; I'm not a party type of guy.”

Guy Party Focus Type Messages Type Of Guy

Author:Roger Miret

“One of the great things about working with Focus is that you're never forced, especially with a film with low budget. The pressure is sort of off. It's like it's so under the radar in a sense that you can cast whoever you want.”

Want Film Focus Lows Pressure Casts Great Things Budgets Radar

Author:Cary Fukunaga

“I'm not aiming for a knockout. I focus on doing my best. If the knockout comes, fine. If not, that's okay.”

Ifs Focus Fine Okay Knockouts

Author:Manny Pacquiao

“If I'm gong out to a club I like to have fun with it. I'll use blue or red sparkly eyeliners and glittery eye shadows. Then I'll put on some blue mascara. I focus on the eyes.”

Ifs Use Eye Fun Focus Shadow Red Blue Clubs Having Fun Mascara Gongs Eyeliner Stiles

Author:Julia Stiles

“On a good night, I'm just into the flow and seeing the pictures and words in my mind clearly before I say them. On a bad night, which to be honest are nowhere near as bad as when I was starting out, I just concentrate on performing the routines correctly. I focus on my delivery.”

Mind Night Focus Seeing Honest Flow Starting Being Honest Performing Delivery Good Night Starting Out Bad Night Pictures And Words

Author:Franklyn Ajaye

“My focus is on always trying to treat the inevitable highs and lows of life with the same blissful, calm energy.”

Trying Energy Focus Lows Treats Calm Inevitable Bliss Calmness Always Trying Ups & Downs Equanimity Highs And Lows Stay Calm Good Times And Bad Times

Author:Kordell Stewart

“It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.”

Ifs Hard Culture Interest Focus Intellectual Pops Magazines Former Pop Culture Buzz

Author:Branford Marsalis

“What is the focus of the new image infrastructure? Attention. It's all designed for capturing, tracking, quantifying, manipulating, holding, buying, selling and controlling attention.”

Attention Focus Selling Buying Infrastructure Tracking

Author:Bruce Mau

“A joke is either funny or it's not funny. If I hear a funny joke, you know what I do? I laugh, that's what I do. I don't start a focus group to see who got hurt by the joke.”

Ifs Knows Hurt Laughing Focus Groups Jokes Funny Jokes Focus Groups Got Hurt

Author:Alonzo Bodden

“Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.”

Opportunity Focus Entrepreneur Starvation Indigestion

Author:Naveen Jain

“Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e. companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.”

Wells Helping Suffering Dies Opportunity Effort Company Focus Entrepreneur Intensity Distraction Starvation Indigestion

Author:Naveen Jain

“I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.”

Energy Water Challenges My Own Company Successful Focus Moon Skills Areas Entrepreneur Clean Solve My Time Healthcare Funding Clean Water Successful Company

Author:Naveen Jain

“I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.”

Challenges Focus Findings Solutions Entrepreneur Addresses Healthcare Entrepreneurial

Author:Naveen Jain

“My ultimate goal is to create operating systems for myself that allow me to think as little as possible about the silly decisions you can make all day long - like what to eat or where we should meet - so I can focus on making real decisions.”

Thinking Should Littles Long I Can Real Goal Decision Focus Ultimate Silly Ultimate Goal Operating Systems

Author:Alexa Von Tobel

“In any given marketplace, there's a triangle. There's a line of Dior goods at $25,000 that creates the sharp focus you need to sell $100 scarves to every woman. When [Design Miami] Basel popped on the scene, it proved there's a market for the top of the design triangle, which will lead the wide base beneath it.”

Needs Given Lines Focus Design Scene Sells Wide Goods Marketplace Miami Triangles Scarves Dior

Author:Benjamin Watson

“I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of focus and if it's possible I try to make an amalgamation of every shape and color in the picture so that it acquires a circular movement: from representation to abstraction, from life to death, and vice-versa.”

Ifs Trying Knowing Focus Seeing Movement Color Shapes Areas Vices Acquire Representation Abstraction Select Vice Versa Knowing Everything Amalgamation

Author:Olivo Barbieri

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